Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Cross-Appointments
Fields of Study
- Canada
- Conflict, Violence and Genocide
- Cultural and Intellectual
- Economy, Technology and Society
- Empires, Colonialisms and Indigeneity
- Gender, Sex, and Sexualities
- Medicine
- State, Politics, and Law
- United States
Areas of Interest
Environmental history, History of Science, Critical and Cultural Theory.
Biography
Michelle Murphy is a technoscience studies scholar and historian of the recent past whose research concerns decolonial approaches to environmental justice; reproductive justice; Indigenous science and technology studies; infrastructures and data studies; race and science; and finance and economic practices. Murphy's current research focuses on the relationships between pollution, colonialism, and technoscience on the lower Great Lakes. Murphy is a tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Science & Technology Studies and Environmental Data Justice, as well as Co-Director of the Technoscience Research Unit, which hosts a lab and is home home for social justice and decolonial approaches to Science and Technology Studies. She is Métis from Winnipeg, from a mixed Métis and French Canadian family.
Education
Publications
- The Economization of Life (Duke University Press : 2017)
- Seizing the Means of Reproduction: Entanglements of Feminism, Health, and Technoscience (Duke University Press : 2012)
- Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty (Duke University Press : 2006)